Quote of the Day: Lindsay Lohan on Daily Inspiration

Notice she says “never say never,” not “stay open-minded.” The double “never” is blunt, almost superstitious, an insistence that absolutes tempt fate. “Open-minded” sounds like a posture you can adopt; “never” sounds like a door you can accidentally slam and then spend years rattling. That’s why the line lands with a grin and a warning: “Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.”

What’s really being rejected here isn’t planning; it’s the arrogance of finality. “Never” is how we try to control uncertainty with vocabulary, how we promise ourselves we won’t return to a place, a person, or a version of our life that hurt us. But time has a way of renegotiating convictions. Circumstances shift. Skills grow. The role you weren’t ready for becomes the one you can finally hold.

Then comes the second claim: unplanned things are the best. That’s not a romantic ode to chaos; it’s a creative principle. Plans protect efficiency, but they can also sterilize the moment. The best scenes, friendships, and career pivots often arrive as interruptions, an improv on set, a last-minute yes, a conversation that turns into a contract. The deeper challenge is learning to embrace spontaneity without surrendering your resilience, to stay flexible without drifting.

Lindsay Lohan has lived the cost of being fixed in place by other people’s narratives: early fame, a successful run in film and music, highly public personal setbacks, and later reinvention through relocation, entrepreneurship, and new screen work. If anyone understands how quickly a “never” can become obsolete, it’s her.

September is a month of resets, new routines, second chances, and the quiet pressure to “get serious.” Try a different discipline today: keep a plan, but leave one corner of it deliberately unclaimed, a small space where surprise can earn its way into your freedom.